Seattle Yacht Club and several ambitious parents put together yet another regatta trek for some lucky young Laser sailors. This year’s Laser Midwinters East were held in Clearwater, Florida. I’m hoping to get a first-hand report about the sailing conditions in a few days. But it seems clear from this picture that there were some happy sailors!
From Kara Carlson:
The SYC team had a great time!!
We got lucky with the weather 80s and sunny.
As a group, we rented a house and had the sailors staying with 3 moms cooking and doing laundry 😉
We had an SYC team dinner and had Hanne Weaver and her mom over on Tuesday night for our special chicken and fajita night (We even found a butcher shop in Clearwater). Teenagers eat a lot!!
The team at MWE this year included
Owen Timms
Abbie Carlson
Parker Carlson
Kit Stoll
Hunter Hong ( First National laser event)
Sammy Farkas ( First National laser event)
Final standings for SYC – Laser Radials
Owen 34th gold
Abbie 2nd silver
Kit 13th silver
Parker 17th silver
Sammy 26th silver
Hunter 43rd silver
Kurt grew up racing and cruising in the Midwest, and has raced Lasers since the late 1970s. Currently he is a broker at Swiftsure Yachts. He has been Assistant Editor at Sailing Magazine and a short stint as Editor of Northwest Yachting. Through Meadow Point Publishing he handles various marketing duties for smaller local companies. He currently is partners on a C&C 36 which he cruises throughout the Northwest. He’s married to the amazing Abby and is father to Ian and Gabe.